The Real Reason Behind This Week’s Thor/Captain America Kiss Is Actually Quite Sad

Marvel had comics fans tongue-wagging way back when their solicitation for All-New, All Different Avengers #4 came with the gorgeous Alex Ross cover above, depicting Sam Wilson and Thor locked in a kiss. The issue is out today, and yes, the kiss is real—but it’s not really all that romantic. In fact, it’s all a…

This Chicken-Obsessed Shining Short May Be the Weirdest Thing You’ll Ever See

I just watched The Chickening and I’m not sure I’ll ever be the same again. Directed by Nick DenBoer and Davy Force, it’s a short version of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, if the movie was obsessed with, and inhabited by, human chicken hybrids. Honestly, what more can you say than that? Talking is hard with…

Bryce Dallas Howard Answers Most Important Question of Jurassic World 2: Will She Wear Heels?

Of course Bryce Dallas Howard can’t talk about the Jurassic World sequel without addressing whether or not her character is going to be wearing high heels. That is literally the only thing that matters at this point. Speaking to E!, Howard was asked what she could say about the sequel and was pretty tight-lipped, at…

Watch an Olympic Figure Skater Perform to the Cowboy Bebop Theme Song

I don’t know much about figure skating. But I know that figure skater Kevin Reynolds, who performed to the Cowboy Bebop theme song while dressed as the show’s main character Spike, totally nailed it. Reynolds, a 25-year-old Sochi Olympian from Vancouver, ran a full routine to Yoko Kanno’s big band piece “Tank!,” the opening theme…

After missing out on a nomination last year for the first time since 2003, DC Comics has two series up for the GLAAD Media Awards. The excellent Midnighter and Harley Quinn join Lumberjanes, Angela: Queen of Hel, and The Wicked + The Divine in the Outsanding Comic Books category for their portrayal of LGBT characters.

Fox’s New Medical Drama Is About Curing Disease With… Human-Animal Hybrid Medicine?

It is a humdinger of a time to be a weird Fox pilot, and we can add another to the delightfully bad idea of a tech billionaire buying his own police department. The network just announced a new procedural drama based on Zoobiquity, examining cross-species medicine through the lens of a wacky doctor/veterinarian pairing. https://gizmodo.com/new-fox-pilot-asks-whether-tech-billionaires-should-own-1755188632…

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is Even Weirder Than You Remember

The Twin Peaks TV show is remembered for being strange, but its real legacy is its influence. Even 24 years later, we’re inundated with crime dramas with supernatural themes, murder mysteries that take an entire season (or longer) to solve, and tales of small towns with deep, dark secrets. But Fire Walk With Me, the…

A Classic Comic Character Joins Marvel’s Most Wanted

The Agents of SHIELD spin-off has finally added another hero to join ranks with Agents Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter. Delroy Lindo will play David Fortune, Marvel’s globe-trotting 1930s-style adventurer that… you’ve probably never heard of. Fortune was created for Marvel by the legendary Howard Chaykin in 1975, and originally the character actually was an…

The FCC Wants to Stop Cable Companies From Ripping You Off On Set-Top Boxes

We’ve all wondered why we have to pay a confusingly large fee to rent a remarkably shitty cable box. There’s no other choice! But if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gets its way, the days of being forced to fork over fees for set-top boxes will soon be over. The Wall Street Journal reports that…

Wait a Minute, Is Batman a Murderer in Batman v Superman?

And Zack Snyder reveals why the film is packing so much stuff in. Gal Gadot discusses the feminism of Wonder Woman. Yes, much to your understandable shock, there will be a lot more Star Wars and Marvel movies in the future. Plus, intriguing new Rogue One details, and The Flash casts another speedster. So many…

A Bird Pees For 17 Seconds in the Full Trailer For The Angry Birds Movie

If you’re like me, when you heard that Sony was making a movie of Angry Birds, you weren’t surprised, you were confused. Of course making a movie based on an insanely popular game makes sense, but what’s the story outside of flying birds destroying pigs? Turns out, not much, but it involves a lot of…

The 24 Most Insane Theories About Who Rey’s Parents Are

There are a few big mysteries in The Force Awakens. We’ve discussed one already (the identity of the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke) so now it’s time to discuss an even more pressing question: Who are Rey’s parents? The internet has some ideas—lots of ideas, each crazier than the last. Here are two dozen possibilities…

You’ll Want to Put These Fractured and Pixelated Character Posters on All Your Walls

These are the work of Jesse Bray, whose portraits of famous pop culture characters have just enough geometry to them to be interesting but aren’t completely abstracted. See more of his work on Instagram and buy a few prints here. Contact the author at [email protected].

Damien Wayne Gets to Work Out Some Anger Issues in the First Look at Justice League vs Teen Titans

Damien Wayne isn’t much of a team player at the best of times, but when the Justice League gets possessed by evil aliens and he gets the chance to beat up Superman and pals? You bet he’s going to team up with the Teen Titans, in their first foray into DC’s original animation movie series.…

Linguists Try to Figure Out How Harmful Disney Princesses Are to Kids

The Washington Post has a fascinating article on the work of linguists who are looking at every line of dialogue from Disney princess movies and analyzing them for their representations of women. The results are mixed, to say the least. You can read the whole thing at the Washington Post (and you should, there’s a…

Supergirl’s Great New Comic Feels Exactly Like the TV Show

One of the greatest strengths of DC’s digital-first comic line is its ability to condense everything about its subject—whether that’s the goofy charm of Batman ‘66 or the nebulous ideals of what it is to be Wonder Woman—into the short, sharp constraints of a weekly release. In that regard, the first chapter of The Adventures…

A Dancer Transforms Into a 3D-Printed Version of Herself in the New Chemical Brothers Video

“Wide Open” is the latest music video from the British electronic duo The Chemical Brothers. In this Dom & Nic-directed video, dancer Sonoya Mizuno (who many of you will remember from Ex Machina) slowly morphs into a synthetic version of herself. The Chemical Brothers appear to be fascinated with cyborgs at the moment, as witnessed…

Star Blazers Got Me Through The Shittiest Year Of My Childhood

I was a happy child, but I didn’t have such a happy childhood. Other kids didn’t get my weird vibe, especially in elementary and middle school. And one year in particular, we moved to a new city and a new school, and things got ugly. Only one thing kept me from losing my shit: Star…

New Fox Pilot Asks Whether Tech Billionaires Should Own the Police

“No” is the resounding answer most of us have to that question, I hope. But it is an excellent premise for a television series that’s right at the line between present day reality and true dystopia. The show, A.P.B., is inspired by the New York Times Magazine article “Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans”…

Anyone, Anywhere Can Sign Up For This Free Online Course on Comic Books

The California College of the Arts is one of very few schools to offer an MFA in Comics. But if you’re just starting to make your own comics—or perhaps not quite ready to commit to a degree program—here’s a rad opportunity that anyone can take part in: a free online course that kicks off in…